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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPark and Recreation Advisory Commission Packet 06-11-1987Regular Meeting i;!-. the p1 _ 4._ _h Parkk and RecreationAdvisory Commission June 1Zr 1987, 7;30 p.m, AGENDA Z.. Cali to Orden 2. Approval of Minutes 3. Visitor Presentations a Athletic Associations b. Staff Q. others. 4,. Report. on Past Council Action a.. Approved Parkers Lake Building Concept plan, b. Approved Plymouth -Wayzata. Youth Baseball Electricity Request c, Approved Plans and Specifications - 101 and Fernbrook Lane Trails S. Unfinished Business a. 1988-92 CIP Review Drat h. Parkers Lake Building - Del Erickson a. Neighborhood Parks Update Amhurst, Rolling Hilts, County Road 61 d, Parkers Lake Update e_. 1987 Trail Projects f Lions Park Play Equipment g. h. 6. New Business: a. New Plats b. Joint Meeting with,City Council (June 29, 6:00 p.m..) C. a. 7 Commission presentation 8. Staff Communication 9,, Adjournment Next meeting July 9th Minutes of the Roguiar Meeting of the Park and Recreation Advisory Commission May It, 1987 Page 16' Present: Chair Edwards, Commissio*,,iers Rosen, Bauman (Beach and Anderson arrived late),. staff Blank, Busch, Patterson and Pederson, and Del Erickson, architect. Absent: Commissioners. L.aTour and Reed' 1CALL TO ORDER Chair Edwards called the meeting to order at 7.51 p.m, in the Council Chambers, 2. APPROVAL. OF MINUTES: A motion was made by Coommissioner Bauman and secondedby Commissioner Rosen to approve the minutes of the April meeting as presented. The motion carried: with all ayes. Commissioner Rosen asked Chair Edwards for clarification on. Roberts Rules of Order regarding whether or not it was proper to vote against a motion if you had also been the person to second the motion. Chair Edwards wasn't sure, Director Blank stated, that he felt the purpose of seconding a motion was to get it on the floor for voting on it., and therefore, it was appropriate for the same individual seconding a motion to then vote against. it.. 3. VISITOR PRESENTATIONS a. Athletic Associations. None were present at this meeting. b Staff. Rick Busch stated that softball team registrations. were up this summer from 153 in. 1986 to 18.6 in 1987, He has field attendants working at Zachary, Plymouth Creek and Plymouth Jr. High fields at this time and expects to :have them beginning the week of May 18 at Oakwood and La.Compte. He stated that beaches are scheduled to open for Memorial Day weekend, weather permitting. Other activities coming up under Rick's supervision include a; Class D Men's Divisional Softball Tournament at Zachary Playfield over Labor Day Weekend.. Nine states are expected to be represented, with over 10.0 teams participating, Friday,. May 22 the Girls High School Regional Softball; Tournament will be held at Zachary P ayfield. Chair Edwards asked Director Blank if there was meed for concern over the fact that we don't have lifeguards posted yet, and swimmers are already using the beaches, Director Blank responded that our liability isn't much different with or without lifeguards. Mary Patterson stated that since we began computer registration in January of this year, we now have over 2,300 participants in our data base. This has greatly reduced the PRAC MINUTES PACE 17 computer's response ii,me in printing class lists, and for that reason, we decided not to enter swimming registration to the computer. Swimming registration was held Saturday, May 9, at both Plymouth City Center and Wayzata City hall, We took in 550 registrations for the Wayzata Eat pool and 490 for the West pool. Beech lessons have been added at both Parkers Lake and the Wayzata beach, Last year beach lessons were offered at only the East Medicine Lake: beach: We contracted this year to offer beach lessons at. a specific ties to a local daycare agency. Mary stated that the Parkers Lake grand opening plans are going well, with two bands and the In: the Heart of the. Beast Puppet Theatre scheduled to perform so far, All grand: opening plans will be finalised in time for publication in the July Plymouth on Parade. Mary indicated that she recently attended. a liability/safety seminar and one of the topics was signage at beaches. She. further stated that: this year water quality would be tested weekly at -,II of our beaches, Chair Edwards asked if there was a test to determine ii ,swimmers itch was present in the water, and Mary responded no, but that as soon as we can beaches: are sprayed for swimmers itch and then ;oust be closed for the next 24 hours: Wv try to dothat on a rainy day, so that it affects as few swimmers as possible, 4, REPORT ON PAST COUNCIL ACTION a., Directed to Proceed with Phase I e It of Bathhouse, Council authorized consultant to begin the design of a year round multi-purpose facility and two picnic shelters at Parkers Lake City Park. b. Award Bid Parkers Lake, Phase Ii construction of Parkers Lake City Park was awarded by Council to H.L, Johnson Company. C. Award Bid Three Neighborhood Parks, Council awarded bid to Barber Construction for the construction of Amhurst, Rolling Bills and County Road 61 parks. d. Council approvedthe installation of a cable ride in the County Road 61 neighborhood park. 5. UNFINISHED BUSINESS V a. Parkers. Lake Bathhouse, Council approved the expenditure of 395,000 for the construction' of the bathhouse at Parkers Lake City Park. Del Erickson architect was present at the meeting to share- proposed concept plans of the bathhouse with commissioners and staff. Commissioners were generally very pleased with the schematic design, but Chair Edwards had some concern over the observation deck extending out over the water. She was afraid it would be a gathering place for kids. to dive into the lake from. Director BlanV at.ated that the water level at this location would fluctuate from b!ttween one and four feet depending on the lake level, Del Erickson PRAC MINUTES: PAGE 18 pointed out that the deck was d'esivned as an observation site., and that in the winter it would serve as a place for the ice skaters to sit and/or take off from when they go skating. Staff and other commissioners like the feeling of the deck being somethinU like a wharf found on the wast. coast. Director Blank pointed out that the observation deck will be bid as an alternate and, does not have to be decided on at, this time, He also stated the fireplace proposed for the multi-purpose room will also be bid as an alternate After further review, A MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER ROSEN AND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER ANDERSON TO APPROVE THE SCHEMATIC DESIGN OF THE BATHHOUSE: AS PRESENTED TO DATE, THE MOTION CARRIED WITH ALL AYES:, b. Neighborhood Parks Update, A pre ---construction meeting will be held between staff. and Barber Construction on Friday, May 15, Construction should begin by May 21. or 22 at Amhurst park first, followed by Rolling Hills and finishing with County Road 61. c, Parkers Lake Update, H.L. Johnson Co, will be done with Parkers Lake Phase 11 by June 20, if weather cooperates and work stays on schedule. This early completion date is possible, because of the mild winter and spring weather we experienced, They were able to get started sooner than expected', d. Trail Project Update. The County Road i5 trail is graded, and culverts and storm sewers are in. Paving will be done very soon, The 101 and Fe.rnbrook Lane trails are still being designed. Barber Construction, instead of City crews, will do the trail on Fernbrook from Highway 55 to Co, Rd, 9 and the one on Zachary from the elementary school north. They will do it, for the same trail: cost as in the, neighborhood park bid, $6,33 per foot. This frees up our crews to do otter maintenance work,. e. Purchase of Land on Plymouth Creek -Update, Appraisors valued the lands the homeowner wishes to sell to the City at $16,000, Director Blank indicated that was too expensive for us, but that. the City would go ahead and make owner an offer, even though City will. likely end up purchasing only a 30 foot easement for the trail_.. f. 1.999 LAWCON/LCMR Grant, Application Update. We have submitted our LAWCON, grant for $100,000 to purchase a house and 1.6 acres of land for West _Medicine Lake City Park, Director Blank is not optimistic since this is a small project, and the. LAWCON office is more interested in development projects. Director Blank reminded commissioners than this was the choice made at the April meriting, because this was the only site at this time that would be eligible for a LAWCON grant, Although he's fairly certain it will be denied, this sets us up. better for approval the following year, pi PRAM MIN .,JTES PACE .. g Lions Park Play Equipment. Commissioners reviewed the re.sults'Of the questionnelre sent to residents living near typesyp equipment theyLionsParkregarding, what es of play a ui yuan desired. Director Blank indicated that he would tike to purchase one piece that features many of the components desired by the residents. A unanimous recommendation from PRAC directed, staff to proceed with the purchase of the play equipment, Director Blank reported that the Lions Club, which was going '..o d( -.gate. some financial assistance toward this pr-o)ect, informed him that they had spent all their funds for 1987, h, Plymo+)th Creek Park Planning -Update.. Director Blank stated that a joint meeting with the City Council, has been, scheduled for June 29, at which time more discussion will be held on planning, Plymouth Greek park. He dial ind-icate that a plat has come in to the Planning Dept. on the 4C acres on the north end of the park. He stated that we would ask for land ded'i c.at i on from that 40 acres for park purposes. 6 NEW BUSINESS a, New Ptats- There were no new plats to report. b,< 19!18-9:2 GIP. Director Blank did a first draft review of, the five year C'IP beginninq with 1988 He stated that the neighborhood park proposed for development in 1988 will be St, Mary's,, and he added a parking lot to the Plymouth Creek tennis courts. In 1989, Swan Lake neighborhood park is proposed for acquisition and development, along with Plymouth Creek Park, pond dredging, the first pha.se of West Medicine Lake City park which was postponed from 1988, trails and the community center. In 1990, the neighborhood park will be Bass Lake, Kilmer Park is scheduled for improvements, more tralIs will be do.ne-, a,r Phase 11 of West Medicine Lake Park, postponed from 1989,1 1991, proposed items include trails, a neighborhood park is scheduled for a northeast site, the second Phase of Bass Lake Park, and more ponddredging in Plymouth Creek Pack. In 1992, projects include Parkers Lake North for the neighborhood park, another neighborhood' park at 49.4: and Co. Rd. 9, Parkers Lake Playfield, trails and more pond dredging at. Plymouth Creek park. Other items not included in the draft plan are; 1, community center land acquisition 2. Plymouth Creek park 3. the home on l^ernbrook Lane 4, the Zachary trail 4, group picnic facilities at Parkers Lake 6, parking at Timl er Shores 7, a trail along Co. Rd. 61 north from Co-. 9 to Bass Lake Rd PRAC MINUTES PAGE 20 8, a parking lot for Schmidt Lake nei:ghbo.rhood park 9. a play area in .Fa:endin neighborhood park. Following this review, Commissioner Bauman requested that staff provide PRAC with cost estimates for the items not included in the CIP, Director Blank stated that the CIF would be finalised in July. C. Swan Lake Petition. Staff received a petition from residents living near Swan Lake, asking for a park. in their neighborhood in the very near future,. Director, Blank indicated that, we currently own four acres on the east side of the lake and that play equipment could be installed there, although he's not sure if that's the best location for it. Director Blank stated that the CIP calls for the development of this park in 1989, 7 COMMISSION PRESENTATION COmnli.ssioner Rosen stated that he was concerned with the names given to the three new neighborhood, parks, particularly the name County Road 6111 park. Director Blank said that he would bring a list of proposed names to the next meeting, and PRAC could review them and choose something more appropriate, 8, STAFF COMMUNICATION None, 9. ADJOURNMENT The meeting Adjourned at 9:24 p.m.. CITY OF PLYMOUTH 3400 PLYMOUTH BLVD., PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447 TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800 DATE: June 8 1987 MEMO TO; FRAC FROM; Eric Blank, Director. of Parks and Recreation SUBJECT: NAMES FOR: NEW NEIGHBORHOOD PARKS Listed on the attachment are possible names for our new neighborhood parks. This list is meant to be examples only of ,possible names, not intended to be all inclusive. I have: put an asterisk (*) next to the names that I think.would be best suited for each of these sites. np Attachment DRAFT POSSIBLE NAMES FOR NEW NEIGHBQRHQ'M PARKS Rolling Hills Amhurst County Road61 ROLLING HILLS TURTLE LAKE SKYLINE VALLEYVIEW MARSH LAKE HERITAGE ZACHARY MEDICINE LAKE HIDDEN VALLEY Other PARKVIEW OAK KNOLL, HILLSIDE WILLOWWOOD RIDGEVIEW LADY SLIPPER ACORN RED OAK; i DRAFT OTHER ITEMS TO CONSIDER/NOT IN DRAFT PLAN Cost Est., 1. Land for community center if needed 2. Additional land for Plymouth Creek Park (north side)- dedication or $40,000/acre 3. Acquisition of home on Fernbrook Lane (Plymouth Creek Park) 95,000 4. Zachary Lane trail - could come out of yearly trail program 90,000 5. Group picnic area south end of Parkers Lake, 2 buildings $25,000 ea. 75,000 parking $25,000 6.. Timber Shores additional ---street parking 15,000 7. County Road 61 trail 8,000 8. Parking lot Schmidt Lake, neighborhood park 8,000 9. Parking .lot Rolling Hills neighborhood park 8,000 10. Parking lot Amhurst neighborhood park 8,000 11_. No matching grants for park school. sites - Birchview, Greenwood 20,000 12. Acquisition of additional wooded area northwest 494 & Co. Rd. 9 30,000/acre 13. Second soccer field at Plymouth Creek 30,000 14. Play area in Fazendin Park 30,000 u a ROADLAKE a 1 f F y w i i w IWp PZs 4 s 1 4 4 iw w tt7 t•*.It Ido. Ir v. N : . 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